You can find the entire tutorial I wrote for issue 145 of Web Designer on line here.
The tutorial was entitled "Building a Webmail Interface using CF8" and covers some of the CF8 Ajax features including:
Chris Schmitz, who runs the Munich ColdFusion User Group has announced details of ColdFusion Camp 2008 in Munich.
The event takes place on November 27th from 9am till 6pm and is an absolute snip at 35 euros.
In addition to Mark Drew, Luis Majano, Gert Franz, Darren Pywell and Peter Haak (plus more), yours truly will be presenting on "ColdFusion and PDF - Improving Your Workflow".
For all the details head over to www.cfug.de or to Gary Gilbert's blog for the same details in English.
I'll be heading south on the 24th of this month to do a couple of quick client visits before partaking in a Wee Dram of Scotch.
A Wee Dram of Scotch is a one day ColdFusion event taking place in London on the 25th of September.
A Wee Dram costs £10 to get in (cash only) and that gets you two drinks, plus 10% off the price of Scotch on the Rocks 2009.
And on that topic, we will be announcing the venue, dates and prices for Scotch 09 at A Wee Dram.
So, what are you waiting for ... Go Sign Up Now!
Web Designer Mag has featured a number of ColdFusion tutorials by myself, and Issue 144 and 145 have the fourth and fifth tutorials in the series.
Issue 144 covered how to build an administrative interface using the CF8 Ajax Datagrid, whilst issue 145 takes the Ajax integration that bit further by showing how we can us FCKEditor (which is included in CF8), and how we can implement our own "Autosave" feature, ultimately leading to a basic Web mail interface.
The 5 tutorials so far have really focused on targeting those new to ColdFusion, or those who are just a tad intrigued by what the fuss is all about. Hopefully I'll be writing some new tutorials for Web Designer that will take our focus that bit deeper.
Issue 146 of Web Designer Mag features a review of this years Scotch on the Rocks.
Go pick up a copy!
We'll be out in force at Scotch on the Rocks next week, meaning we won't be manning the phones, though calls will be forwarded to mobiles. However, as this is "our" conference, we'll be somewhat busy.
I'm really looking forward to catching up with guys like Doug Hughes, Scott Stroz and Joe Rinehart, all of whom I met a few years back at CFUnited in Washington.
It'll be nice to see the Adobe crew again, including Jason Delmore, Kristen Schofield, Adam Lehman and Ben Forta.
There's a bunch of new folk that I can't wait to meet, such as Luca Mezzalira, Peter Elst, Neil Middleton and Neil Webb.
And last but not least, Gert Franz. We took Gert and the Railo crew out for lunch last year after the conference and introduced them to Haggis so I'll need to see what I can subject them too this year.
For everyone attending, make yourself know to me - I'll be the main idiot wearing the kilt - and who knows, maybe you'll end up with some extra swag, free drink or even some free training or consultancy. I get generous around conference time, so who knows .....
The third in my series of ColdFusion tutorials for Web Designer magazine is now available at a newsagent/bookstore near you.
This tutorial is on PDF Generation and Form Manipulation, Image Manipulation and Presentations on Demand.
May's edition will revisit the CF8 Ajax grid, and building a CRUD interface, whilst June will tackle the CF8 PDF features in more depth, and how you can build an online order system.
Alan Williamson announced earlier today the folks who will make up the steering committee for the Open BlueDragon (OpenDB) project.
Having known Alan for 4 years now, since I first asked him to present at the ScottishCFUG, I was aware that OpenBD was on the cards.
The members of the committee should be known to most of the community, and as Sean Corfield points out, not all of them have enjoyed a "friendly" relationship with New Atlanta in the past. However, that just goes to show the level of interest and commitment to the OpenBD project, and ultimately what it could achieve.
If you want to get involved in the project, then please join the community mailing list, which can be found at http://groups.google.com/group/openbd
If you want to experience OpenBD firsthand, then the initial release of OpenBD should take place at this years cf.Objective() conference, and 6 of the Steering Committee will be at Scotch on the Rocks;Alan Williamson, Andy Wu, Sean Corfield, Matt Woodward, Mark Drew and myself
We're planning something special for Scotch, so stay tuned!
I'm heading out to Dublin on Friday for the ScotchOnAir event.
This is a half day event put together by Scotch on the Rocks and MMUG Dublin.
Dublin was originally part of the Adobe onAir tour, but due to "unforeseen circumstances", the Dublin date was cancelled and Scotch's very own Kev McCabe jumped into organise something.
Kev has managed to arrange for Adobe's Ryan Stewart and Ted Patrick to come along and give talks on Air and Flex respectively, whilst Kev will be talking about ColdFusion and Flex.
I'll be doing my damnedest to plug Scotch on the Rocks and in addition to the swag Adobe have given us to raffle off, we will also give away a full 3 day pass to Scotch, There may also be a few other Scotch bits and bobs kicking around, and maybe some Fuzzy Orange swag too.
Now, if I can just survive my flight with Ryanair!!!
